After an engrossing and at times frustrating 10 episodes, the documentary ends with Steven Avery and his learning-impaired 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey, found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide.

Ken Kratz, the original former prosecutor in the case, told The New York Times, however, that Avery "is exactly where he needs to be."

Kratz and other Manitowoc County figures, such as the current sheriff, Robert Hermann, have been vocal after the Netflix documentary aired in December, citing evidence that was left out, which they believe points unequivocally to Avery's guilt.

We rounded up all of the reasons why they still believe Avery is guilty — and what they say was left out of "Making a Murderer."

The soaking of his cat in gasoline or oil was also reported by The Associated Press in 2005: "[Avery's probation] was revoked in 1982 after he was charged with animal cruelty for pouring gasoline on a cat and throwing it into a bonfire."

Though this incident is in the documentary, filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi included a voiceover from Avery that it was a "mistake" and he and his friends were "fooling around."

"Another mistake I did, I had a bunch of friends over and we were fooling around with the cat and, I don't know, they were kind of negging [sic] it on," viewers heard him say in the first episode. "I tossed him over the fire and he lit up. You know, it was the family cat. I was young and stupid and hanging around with the wrong people."

Avery allegedly planned to build a "torture chamber" after he was released from prison.

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"While in prison, Avery told his cell mate of his intent to build a 'torture chamber' so he could rape, torture, and kill young women when he was released," Kratz said in the email. "He even drew a diagram. His other cell mate was told by Avery that the way to get rid of a body is to 'burn it'...heat destroys DNA."

Avery used a "fake name" when he booked Halbach to take pictures of the car.

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Halbach was a photographer for AutoTrader Magazine. Her job was to go take pictures of a car someone wanted to sell, and she had previously worked with Avery in the past.

Kratz said in the email that Avery specifically requested "that same girl who was here last time" when he booked the appointment and put the appointment under his sister's name, Barb Janda, in order to "trick" Halbach into returning.

Avery called Halbach using *67 to hide his number.

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"Phone records show three calls from Avery to Teresa's cellphone on October 31 [2005]," Kratz said in the email. "One at 2:24 p.m., and one at 2:35 p.m. — both calls Avery uses the *67 feature so Teresa doesn't know it him [sic]...both placed before she arrives. Then one last call at 4:35 p.m., without the *67 feature."

"Avery first believes he can simply say she never showed up so tries to establish the alibi call after she's already tied up in his trailer, hence the 4:35 p.m. call," Kratz continues. "She will never answer of course, so he doesn't need the *67 feature."

The contents of Halbach's purse were found in a barrel close to Avery's property.

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"Teresa's phone, camera, and PDA were found 20 feet from Avery's door, burned in his barrel," Kratz said in his email. "Why did the documentary not tell the viewers the contents of her purse were in his burn barrel, north of his front door."

Teresa's phone, camera and [other contents of her purse] were found 20 feet from Avery's door, burned in his barrel...Two people saw him putting that stuff in there. This isn't contested. It was all presented as evidence at the jury trial, and the documentary people don't tell you that.

Though Tech Insider doesn't currently have access to Avery's court documents to check the veracity of this statement, Manitowoc County's current sheriff, Robert Hermann, remembers this evidence as well.

"In the burning barrel, the cell phone and several other things of Teresa Halbach were found in the barrel, burnt," Hermann told The Hollywood Reporter. "A camera, I believe, and a cell phone."

Teresa's tooth, a rivet from her jeans, and more were found in Avery's fire pit.

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"Also found in the fire pit was Teresa's tooth (ID'd through dental records), a rivet from the 'Daisey Fuentes' [sic] jeans she was wearing that day, and the tools used by Avery to chop up her bones during the fire," Kratz said in his email.

Though these tools to dismember her body are never mentioned, Kratz does discuss Teresa's tooth and rivets from her jeans at Brendan Dassey's trial.

"You're going to hear that the five of those six rivets were recovered from the burn area right behind Steven's garage," Kratz said in his opening statement. "Teresa tooth No. 31, one of the back teeth on the left side of her jaw, was recovered from the bone area."

Halbach's bones were "intertwined" with the tires Avery threw on the fire to burn.

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"Her bones in the fire pit were 'intertwined' with the steel belts, left over from the car tires Avery threw on the fire to burn, as described by Dassey," Kratz wrote in the email. "That was where her bones were burned!"

This is significant because the documentary discusses two other possible burn sites in addition to Avery's bonfire location. His defense counsel argued that the bones were most likely moved from one of these burn sites in order to frame Avery.

Kratz said to People magazine that the evidence "suggesting that some human bones found elsewhere — never identified as Teresa's — were from this murder was never established [sic]."

Investigators also said in the court documents that they found steel belts of about six tires that were used as fire accelerants. They also found a number of 5-gallon buckets that appeared to have been used to distribute burned remains.

Avery's DNA was found under the hood of Halbach's car.

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At the trial and in the documentary, a lot of emphasis is placed on Avery's blood, which was found in Halbach's car. Avery's legal team argued that the blood could have been planted there by police officers in an effort to frame Avery while the prosecution insisted it was from an open cut on Avery's hand.

Kratz argues in the email, however, that it's Avery's DNA from his sweat — not his blood — that was found under the hood of her SUV.

Dean Strang, one of Avery's defense attorneys during the trial, told The Times that the DNA found on the latch was never actually confirmed as sweat and that it still doesn't mean Avery touched the car.

Ballistics said the bullet with Halbach's DNA was fired by Avery's rifle.

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In Avery's garage, police found a bullet that had Halbach's DNA on it. Kratz said in the email that the ballistics proved the bullet was shot from Avery's rifle that police had confiscated back when they first searched the property.

"Ballistics said the bullet found in the garage was fired by Avery's rifle, which was in a police evidence locker since [November] 6 [2005]," he wrote. "If the cops planted the bullet, how did they get one fired from his gun?"

Avery's former defense attorney, Strang, did not deny the ballistics report, but told The Times that bullet fragments were found all over the Avery Salvage Yard property, where the family often shot guns.

Strang also told The Times that Halbach's DNA on the bullet "really didn't move the needle one way or another."

Interestingly, Dassey's prints and DNA weren't found on the leg irons or handcuffs, and neither was Halbach's DNA.

In the 2006 Milwaukee Magazine story "Simple Blood," it says that Avery admitted in an interview with the reporter that those were his property. "I bought them," he said. "I wanted to try out something different with Jodi [Ed note: Avery's girlfriend from the time]."

For what it's worth, pictures from the crime scene and in the documentary show no restraint marks on the bed frame — spotted by Reddit.

Brendan, himself, hands over to Investigator Fassbender his jeans. He says, these were the pants I was wearing that night, and these pants are splashed with bleach from cleaning Uncle Steve's garage.

The Dassey defense responded that though bleach was found on Brendan's pants and he did help Avery clean the garage, it was to clean up a lawnmower spill, not Halbach's blood, like both Kratz and Hermann insinuate.

Steven takes from gasoline and pours it onto this little area, and they use some clothing, old rags, that sop up the mess, and as they begin to clean it up with these old clothes and old rags, they throw them onto the fire, and they do that for about a half hour. Steven tries some gasoline and paints — paint thinner to help clean up the area, and some bleach as well.

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